Life's A Mess Anyway

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[WRITER'S NOTES]

This is another of Tyler's musical compositions - he just plays them, and while listening I get a sense of what they are "about". This one made me feel the too fast pace of life - the way we are "fooled" by the manipulated media and social "order" into planning non-stop for the future. Financial worries programmed into our heads - so we work and work and work putting all our time into making money that we squirrel away for the future, for retirement, which is being used today by those in power i.e, Corporations. While we sleep, our money is being used in foreign trade markets making more money that isn't benefitting the little guy, in fact it's making the rich super-rich, and the middle class slowly disappears - why are we in Iraq? Ask yourself this question, dig for the answers and you might not like what you discover. Be informed, and disabuse yourself of the illusions we are fed.

This recording is an experimental one... Tyler tried it on the resonator, and I added harp, but we're both not sure how we feel about the sound yet. It's very different from the way we usually play it. Let us know if you have an opinion!

The crazy animated graphic just seemed so perfect to represent the idea of information overload - I just had to use it for this song!!!

LIFE'S A MESS ANYWAY

[LAMA]

Life's A Mess Anyway (LYRICS)

You think you know what you want,

Ohhh... I don’t think so,

But it’s so hard to let it go, now...

Workin’ and planning all my time away

Do I really want to work inside the box?

Punch a time clock?

Give up all my sunny days...my time to play?

Ohhh...I don’t think so...

I don’t want no 401K - No IRA...

I don’t want to think beyond today...

When I might not be here,

Cause the future’s unclear

You think you know what you want,

Ohhh... I don’t think so,

But it’s so hard to let it go, now...

Baby’s crying – Mama’s sighing – Daddy’s hiding

And the boys, the boys are running wild...

Working and planning all my life away

Do I really want to be a wage slave?

Oh I don’t think so...

I don’t want no money markets, funding rockets -

tearing holes in our world

Oh we‘ve seen the future ...

And you know it’s not clear...

You think you know what you want,

Ohhh... I don’t think so,

But it’s so hard to let it go, now...

Ohhh...it’s so hard...

just let it go, now...

Tyler Cusson – Resonator Guitar

Raven Cusson – Rhythm Guitar / Vocals / Blues Harp